Mechanism



(No Modem A. P. VALON.

CLOCK WINDING MEGHANISM.

No. $58,997.', Patented Mar. 8, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT (")EEICEe AIME ERANQOIS vALoN, ou GENEVA,SWITZERLAND, ASSIG'NOE rro E. vAIIoN a co., or SAME PLAGE.

CLOCK-WlNDlNG lVlECHANlSM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,997, dated March 8,1887.

Application filed October 6, 1856. Serial No. 215,446. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AIME FEANoIs VALoN, watch-manufacturer, at Geneva,in Switzerland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clocks,oi' which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the winding up of clocks of all kinds Vandsystems by means of a very simple mechanism, allowing to wind upsimultaneously and without opening the clock the two or threemainsprings of the clock.

My mechanism needs no heling of thc dial, and no key is wanted to actupon it.

The accompanying drawings show a clock With two barrels provided with mymechanism. The latter may also be iitted to a clock with only onebarrel, or to one having three barrels, (one for the work, one forstriking the hours, and one for alarm.)

Figure l is a front View of the mechanism, the dial being supposed to bebroken off. Fig. 2 is asection through X Y, showing the disposition ofthe winding-up mechanism upon the upper plate of the clock-work and thedisposition of the plates and oi the glass and winding-ring in and uponthe clock-case. The other parts of the work, having no relation to theinvention, are not shown in the drawings.

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The plates B and D are bound by means of four pillars, b. The axis A ofspring-barrel A is aiixed with one of its pivots to the plate B, andwith the other one to a bridge, C, screwed upon the plate D. rlhe latterhas an opening,giving passage to the barrel A. The axis A is providedwith asquared end,c, which bears two ratchet-wheels, F and G, placedbetween the plate B and the ring E, the latter bearingthe dial. Theseratchet-wheels are afiiXed tothe square @,While the wheel IvLwhieh isplaced between F and G, turns freely around the axis A. rihe twospring-ratchets ff are affixed in a recess of plate Band act upon theratchet-wheel F. The ratchet-wheel G,placed between the wheel H andbridge I, is acted upon by the two spring ratchets g g, which areaffixed to wheel H. rlhe teeth of the ratchetwheels for thespring-barrels stand in opposite directions, so that one will act in onedirection in winding up the mainspring, andthe other in the reversedirection in winding up the second spring, and the clock will be woundup by turning the ring J first one way and then the other. A circulartooth-range, J', which is affixed to a ring, J, engages with wheel H,and the ring J is made with a circular rib projecting around theclock-case, so that the said ring may be turned first one way and thenthe' other to wind up the clock. The ring J is held with but littlefriction between the case K and the ring E. The latter is connected tothe plate B by means of three pillars, e. L is the dial. M is a ringwhich retains the dial upon the ring E, and N is the glass bezel, whichis affixed upon the ring M.

The windingeup mechanism of the second barrel, A, is a symmetricalreproduction of the even-described one, so that by turning the bezel Jfrom left to right the spring of barrel A is wound up, while the wheel Hol barrel A turns backward without turning the axis A, and by turningthe bezel J from right to left the Spring of barrel Ais wound up, whilewheel H of barrel A" turns backward without turning the axis A.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The combination,with the mainspringaxis A, having a squared portion, a, of the tworatchet-wheels F and G, with reverse clickteeth and squared holes, thewheel H,with a round hole, and provided with spring-ratchets g, actingupon the wheel G, and of the springratchets f, affixed to the plateB andacting upon F, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

AIME EIiANoIs vALoN. 'Witnesses v LYELL T. ADAMs,

U. S. Consul, Genera. THEODORE TRUER.

